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From a Benjamin Bratton Critique  of TED: Communism in theory is an egalitarian utopia.   Actually existing communism meant ecological...

Wasn't sure if this was a great year for music or not. But when I started working through everything I listened to, I actually had a re...

So Sarah Palin said this in response to Martin Bashir's comments about her and the rather nasty treatment she should receive for her ...

I am down to one blog post a month this year, and I almost missed this month altogether. I still hope to get back at it at some point. I hav...

Missouri's Lieutenant Governor believes you should only follow laws he supports : Kinder, a Republican who is Missouri's second-ra...

Took a break from Missouri news and political news for a few weeks... I poke my head back into it for a second and get this : A clown wear...

Comedy Gold. From Roll Call .

The Library of Congress has some great photos of cities around the turn of the century. Here is Kansas City in 1907 . Via Open Culture ...

To the good people of Galveston and surrounding coastal Texas, well done on electing to the actual U.S. Congress a person who would say this...

Sam Mellinger puts up a few random facts about the Royals current awfulness. Here are a couple of my favorites: The Royals last hit two...

Here is my favorite Royals stat of the moment, via Sam Mellinger : The Royals are a walking mess right now, baseball’s worst team in May,...

If a college hires you as a coach ...

From the New York Review of Book's review of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot's memoir : Complex dynamics had flourished in Parisi...

Here is an incredible map of American English dialects. It's interactive and includes sound. Depending on how much of nerd you are, it ...

I don't remember Jeff Francouer in high school, but he must have been there.